The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.

Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.

I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don't mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.

Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.

Honor is the presence of God in man.

The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.

I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.

There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art.

I felt the sharp sting of emptiness and solitude that you feel so acutely and with such internal sorrow and wonder whenever music is performed well.

I cannot express how lordly and transfigured I felt at that moment. I was a prince of that harbor, a porpoise king - slim among the buoys and the water traffic.

He was ruled by the tyranny of instinct, by passion and the instant legislation of a simple heart.

God I loved Sammy. I’d considered marrying him, but his wife got upset when I asked for his hand.

In me is working a power stronger than every other power. The life that is in me is a thousand times bigger than I am outside.

Fill your mind with thoughts of calmness and happiness

Time heals what reason cannot.

Let's toast a real wine expert - someone who knows a good rose goes best with bologna sandwiches.

To refer to the oft mooted question, "Which piece is stronger, the Bishop or the Knight?" it is clear that the value of the Bishop undergoes greater changes than that of the Knight.

I don't like myself, I'm crazy about myself.

America is not a special country by accident. It did not happen on its own. It happened because for over 200 years, each generation before us did what needed to be done.

A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor...Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom.

A very scurvy fellow.